Garrett Gomez, who won two Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships races on Saturday at Belmont Park in New York, was named the Bill Shoemaker Award winner as the outstanding Breeders’ Cup Jockey of 2005.

The 33-year-old Gomez, a leading rider on the southern California circuit, captured the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile aboard Stevie Wonderboy and the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile on Artie Schiller. Those victories were the first two Breeders’ Cup career wins for Gomez, who also finished second on Taste of Paradise in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

In voting by the international media covering the Breeders’ Cup, Gomez finished ahead of Edgar Prado, who also won two Breeders’ Cup races on Saturday, riding Folklore in the Alberto VO5 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and on Silver Train in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Sprint.